With its strong community spirit, unsanitised street culture and crumbling architecture, the gritty southern-Italian city of Naples attracts those who want to see a raw and untamed side of Italy. In the 20th century, trailblazing cultural icons such as Hemingway, Pablo Neruda and Andy Warhol were seduced by Naples. Today, trendsetting young artists and writers […]
Robert ‘D’ Naja (Massive Attack), whose father is from Naples, and James Lavelle (UNKLE) give an insight into why they fell in love with Napoli and what the city means to them. In 90s, Massive Attack asked the Neapolitan band Almamegretta to mix their song Karmacoma, from the album Protection: this is Karmacoma (The Napoli Trip), 1995. […]
He’s playing an important role in elevating the profile of Naples as a cultural destination. His pieces have appeared on the walls of Brooklyn, Buenos Aires, Cochabamba, Aruba, Gaza and Santiago de Chile. In August 2019, he paints the face of the first man in space, Yuri Gagarin, on the facade of a twenty-story building […]
